Shop stools

These are sturdy, simple elegant stools. I use mine all the time and the other two shown were gifts to friends with shops. They are not my design, I saw them in a magazine somewhere and later built them from memory. The points of interest are: 1) The stretcher design weakens each leg only once rather than the usual twice for leg-to-leg-to leg stretchers.2) You can cuddle right up to your setup table while using the drill press, again because of the stretcher design.3) You can make the whole thing in a day on the lathe and drill press.

I think that’s where I saw them too and since I posted these I’ve seen the article again. I think Tage Frid gets credit for the article although the general style is probably older. I use mine every day.